Abstract: A cap holder apparatus includes a base assembly adapted to be attached to a support surface. A plurality of clamp members project from the top surface of the base assembly. Each of the clamp members includes a round contour adapted to contact a round contour on a head covering such as a cap or hat. The clamp members are arrayed on the base assembly such that free ends of the clamp members are parallel to each other. Fasteners or an adhesive are provided for attaching the base assembly to a support surface. The clamp members are in a form of portions of walls of a cylinder, and the clamp members are concentric to each other. Apertures may be provided in the base assembly to receive screws for attaching the base assembly to a support surface. If an adhesive layer, located on the bottom surface of the base assembly, is employed, a non-adhesive barrier layer is placed upon the layer of adhesive material until the adhesive layer is ready for use, upon which time the barrier layer is removed.

Abstract: A wafer container for conveying silicon wafers, which can be readily re-used after transportation. The cover of the container has recesses to stress the wafers to prevent shaking. The container can be piled up and are easy to open.

Abstract: A special container and a cooperating plier-type tool are designed to facilitate storage and installation of fluid system gaskets. The container acts to guide and control movement of the tool into gripping engagement with the gaskets to eliminate contact with the sealing faces of the gaskets by either the installer's hands or the tool.

Abstract: An annular article-wrapping member includes a shrinkable wrapping material is wound on the outer periphery of an annular article to be wrapped in such a manner that the direction of shrinkage of the shrinkable wrapping material coincides with a circumferential direction of the outer periphery of the annular article. The overlapped portions of the wrapping material subsequently are joined together. The shrinkable wrapping material is heated to be shrunk to provide an intermediate wrapping member having sleeve openings having a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the annular article. Sleeve forming portions of the intermediate wrapping member together in a ring-shape along an inner periphery of the annular article. The portion of the shrinkable wrapping material disposed inwardly of the joined portion is removed by cutting, thereby obtaining the annular article-wrapping member.

Abstract: An OPC belt is adapted for use in an EP printer which employs parallel drive rollers to move the OPC belt. A package for the OPC belt includes an outer package member that is shaped to be insertable over a used OPC belt on the drive rollers. The outer package member includes grippers which engage the used OPC belt once the outer package member is inserted over the used belt. The grippers maintain engagement with the used OPC belt as the outer package member is withdrawn from engagement with the drive rollers. The used OPC belt is thus removed from the drive rollers while still positioned within the outer package member. An inner package member is shaped to fit within the outer package member and holds a replacement OPC belt. The inner package member is insertable over the drive rollers to position the replacement OPC belt thereover. The inner package member is sized to be removable from engagement with the drive rollers when roller tension is increased on the replacement OPC belt.

Abstract: A combination display and packaging for a toilet seat assembly including, when the assembly is in a closed position on a toilet, a toilet seat having a downwardly facing surface, a toilet seat cover substantially overlying the seat and having an upwardly facing surface, and a hinge pivotably connecting the cover and the seat, the display and packaging comprising a back wall, a loop on the back wall for supporting the back wall in a vertically extending position on a projection, the toilet seat assembly being supported on the back wall such that the downwardly facing surface of the toilet seat faces the back wall and such that the hinge and the entire upwardly facing surface of the cover are visible.

Abstract: An expandable shell for changing a belt-type photoconductor in an image forming apparatus such as a laser printer. The apparatus has a two piece expandable housing which captures the belt around the housing's inner wall. Guide features are provided on each half of the housing to ensure proper belt placement. Mating guide features are located in the image forming apparatus. The guide feature in the printer nearest the idler roller is linked to the idler roller which is movable toward the drive roller to facilitate changing the belt. The belt is captured in the housing when the housing is in the collapsed position. When the housing expands, the belt becomes free from the housing and is captured by the drive and idler rollers in the printer.

Abstract: The container has an enclosure member and a body member which together enclose a volume to accept wafers for storage, for handling, or for transportation. The body member has a base, and a plurality of spaced upright arcuate members supported on the base that are adapted to encircle wafers stacked on the base. An enclosure member has a circular top wall and a cylindrically shaped wall that is adapted to encompass and enclose the arcuate members. The retainer element has a flat central portion, and a plurality of flexible outwardly extending flaps depending from the central portion. The retainer element fits within the arcuate members of the body member with the end portions of the flaps positioned in the slots between the arcuate members.

Abstract: Parallelepipedal packaging containers, suitable for return transport, for wound-up magnetic recording media, produced from a one-part or multi-part blank having a bottom and top as well as side parts, which are joined to one another by means of foldable joining tabs and containing a hub support extending from the top to the bottom. The bottom and the top each have a circular central clearance through which a one-part or multi-part hollow-cylindrical hub support is inserted, onto which the wound media are fitted in a stackable manner. For assembly of the package from the folded-up state, the hub support has a locking snap-in device on at least one end face.

Abstract: A container is used to hold and transport punched diskette media to prevent contamination of and damage to the media. The container includes an outer shell comprising a cover and a base formed of a durable, pre-formed material. The base has an inner surface having at least one protruding male structure suitable for receiving and mounting a first hollow portion of a spindle. The cover has a second inner surface having a recessed female structure suitable for receiving another portion of a spindle. In addition, a spindle mounting member designed to carry a plurality of punched diskette media is included in the container. The spindle mounting member is an elongate spindle with a hollowed end for placement on the protruding male structure in the base and an end suitable for placement within the recessed female structure in the cover. The spindle mounting member includes a circumferential or annular media holder suitable for supporting media placed on the spindle. A closure member securely closes the container.

Abstract: The present invention allows operating room personnel to easily and expeditiously drape an endoscope. The present invention is preferably made of polyethylene or some other suitable plastic material. The cylindrical drape cartridge itself acts as a shroud and functions as a sterile barrier. The drape cartridge consists of an inner and outer polyethylene tube which retains the polyethylene drape within its walls. The proximal end of the cartridge is mechanically secured by detents and a chamfer that encase a corrugated pattern of the polyethylene drape. The inner tube acts as a mandrel, allowing the drape to be compressed in a manner that accommodates the various lengths of required draping while lessening the bulk of the draping system.

Abstract: A storage device including a lid and a plurality of shelf members, pivotally mounted to a frame member. The lid, the base, and the plurality of shelf members form pairs of opposed cooperating rack assemblies. Each pair of cooperating rack assemblies is adapted to hold articles stored in the storage device in an offset nesting relationship until use.

Abstract: A parallelepipedal storage container is formed of two sections. Each section is rectangular and is foldable to separate the section into a central base wall and two side walls. The adjacent base and side walls can be oriented ar right angles to each other to form a U-shape. The storage container is formed by mating the two U-shaped sections so that the side edges of the side walls of the U-shape on one section are disposed adjacent the side edges of the side walls of the other U-shape to form edges of the storage container. The two sections are secured together using a tongue and groove connection to mate the sections along respective edges.

Abstract: A plurality of commutators are inserted into a commutator supply tube in end-to-end, tang-oriented relationship to form a row of commutators mutually aligned along a common axis. The ends of the supply tube may be at least partly covered during transport and handling. The commutator-filled tube is oriented on a horizontal axis in axial alignment with a commutator-receiving nest. A first commutator in the tube is inserted into the nest by pushing on the opposite end of the row. The nest is moved into alignment with a placing ram and the commutator pushed into the ram nosepiece after which the ram is operated to press the commutator onto an armature shaft. The process is repeatedly carried out until all of the commutators are removed from the tube. The process may also include a commutator tang forming step and a tang ejection capability. An empty tube is replaced successively by other tubes filled with commutators so that the process can be repeatedly carried out over an indefinite period of time.

Abstract: A special container includes a tubular body that has two spaced apart ends and is in the form of a semicircle having a gap of 60 arc degrees between the two ends. A coil of fish tape having two coils thereof welded together is contained in the tubular body, and is fed out or re-wound by hand by grasping the tape that is exposed in the gap. The body has a plastic outer surface and a steel inner surface.

Abstract: A system securing a plurality of tape pancakes includes a compressible baffled core support on which the pancakes can be mounted. An interior rod having a head fits and is received within the baffled core support. A nub on the inside surface of the core support engages a groove on the outside surface of the interior rod to provide a threaded engagement between the interior rod and the core support. Rotation of the interior rod within the core support after the head contacts the end of the core support provides an axial compression load onto the core support to hold together the pancakes. This axial compression also expands the baffles which contact and tighten against the inside of the tape pancake cores and provide a radial force to secure the pancakes in place.

Abstract: A method is provided for locating the bottom roll of a stack of a plurality of slit rolls disposed upon a skid or pallet with the method incorporating the use of a disk snugly telescoped downwardly into the tubular core of the lowermost slit roll and being anchored to the supporting skid through the utilization of shank-type fasteners. After the positioning disk has been secured to the skid the remaining slit rolls of the stack are placed upon and axial aligned with the bottom slit roll of the stack and an elongated reinforcing gusset is snugly telescoped down through the cores of the stack. Thereafter, a shrink film is placed about the stack, around and beneath the skid securing the stack to the skid.

Abstract: A wheel protector for protecting a demounted aircraft wheel 54 and its bearing sets 56.1, 56.2 comprises an inboard cover disc 10, and an outboard cover disc 12. An axially outwardly extending part 18 of the inboard cover disc slopes at an angle radially inwardly so as to form a deflecting surface for objects approaching the cover disc in a radial direction. The inboard cover disc has flutings 28 which form between them recesses for accommodating the brake lugs of an aircraft wheel. When in position, the inboard cover disc also protects the heat shields which are located between the brake lugs. A ridge formation 38 serves to locate a pair of wheels against sliding relative to one another when stacked. Foam pads 32.1, 32.2, 33, 40 and 41 are provided where the cover discs contact the wheel or its bearing sets.

Abstract: A protective cover (16) for covering a blood-pressure cuff (10) comprises a flexible sheet defining an elongated bottom band (24), an elongated top band (30), and an intermediate portion (38) interconnecting the bottom and top bands. The bottom and top bands have widths which are substantially greater than a width of the blood-pressure cuff. A length of the bottom band is greater than a distance about an appendage (14) about which the blood-pressure cuff is to be wrapped and a length of the top band is greater than a distance about an outer surface of the blood-pressure cuff when it is wrapped about the appendage. The sheet is two-ply, having an exterior layer (18) of soft absorbent material and an interior layer (20) of more liquid impervious material. The bottom band is wrapped about the appendage, the blood-pressure cuff is wrapped about the bottom portion, and the top band is pivoted relative to the bottom band at the intermediate portion over the blood-pressure cuff and wrapped thereabout.

Abstract: A holder for supporting dental discs in a position such that the spindle of a rotary drill can be inserted through the center of the disc in order to pick up the disc without manipulating the disc with the user's hands. The holder has a notch and storage area for removing the used disc from the spindle.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer container comprises two identical parts, one forming the bottom and the other forming the lid. Each part has the overall shape of a disk defining a central axis (4) and comprises on a first surface a high number of protruding parts (6) arranged according to a peripheral circle and defined by intersecting plane surfaces which are obliquely slanted with respect to a plane corresponding to the disk. The protruding parts 6 are adjacently joined according to external (9) and internal (10) edges radially oriented with respect to the central axis (4) for forming a saw-tooth ring.

Abstract: A shipping container for decorative wreaths comprising a box having two ends and four sides with three inserts each having a base and four side walls installed in the box. The base of each insert has a tube hole formed through it and an elongated tube extends through the tube holes perpendicular to the bases from one end of the box to the other. The wreaths and inserts slide onto the elongated tube through the ends of the box. To prevent moisture given off by the wreaths from condensing and rotting the wreaths and from being absorbed by the cardboard of the container, ventilation holes are cut into the box and inserts. Ventilation holes in the ends of the box are also used for carrying the container. To further prevent the cardboard from absorbing moisture, one side of the box and each insert is treated with a moisture barrier and a curtain coating is applied to the middle strip of the inserts.

Abstract: An annular article-wrapping member includes a shrinkable wrapping material which is wound on the outer periphery of an annular article to be wrapped in such a manner that the direction of shrinkage of the shrinkable wrapping material coincides with a circumferential direction of the outer periphery of the annular article. The overlapped portions of the wrapping material subsequently are joined together. The shrinkable wrapping material is heated to be shrunk to provide an intermediate wrapping member having sleeve openings having a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the annular article. Sleeve forming portions of the intermediate wrapping member together in a ring-shape along an inner periphery of the annular article. The portion of the shrinkable wrapping material disposed inwardly of the joined portion is removed by cutting, thereby obtaining the annular article-wrapping member.

Abstract: A hardware carrier for carrying sorting and displaying nuts, bolts, washers and lock washers includes a generally rectangular shaped lower base member, an upper base member and a cover. The lower base member has a plurality of openings therein for supporting and displaying bolts of varying sizes. The upper base member has a plurality of posts therein for supporting and displaying a plurality of nuts, washers and lock washers of varying sizes. The upper base member is releasably locked to the cover and lower base member when the hardware carrier is in carrying mode.

Abstract: A packed assembly of roll-form photographic light-sensitive materials comprising a substantially disk-shaped supporting member fixed to a pallet. The supporting member has a concave portion near the center thereof. An assembly of roll-form photographic light-sensitive materials is placed on the supporting member in a piled state, a central post inserted into the assembly through the cores of the photographic light-sensitive materials and is fixed to the concave portion of the supporting member at the lower end and to a flange cap at the upper end, and a light-shielding material is closely place around the assembly in a light-tight state.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for dispensing identical pieces having a symmetry of revolution about an axis, such as rivets; this process comprises arranging the pieces one after another in a tube (2) which has a hollow center (2a) adapted to assure the guiding thereof, admitting a compressed fluid into the tube behind the last piece (1D), and distributing said fluid along the length of the tube toward the hollow center (2a) thereof, to the interior of one or several longitudinal passageways (2b), such that the fluid pressure is exerted along the hollow center in the spaces (E) separating the pieces, up to the first piece (1P) on which the pressure acts for assuring its transfer. The process of the invention permits dispensing a very great number of pieces without risk of jamming in the tube and with a precise guiding permitting maintaining the alignment of the axes of the pieces.

Abstract: A molded, one-piece stackable package for fragile articles, such as circuline fluorescent light bulbs with bulb-shaped adapters and attached fittings, has a bottom tray and a top cover mutually hinged together respectively at one side wall. The tray interior has a center support defining an annular trough between the tray side walls and the support in which the circuline bulb will nest without substantial lateral movement. The center support also defines a cavity contoured and tapered to partially receive a light-bulb shaped article. Corner posts and a center foot extend from the outer surface of the bottom of the tray to support the tray. The cover has a second center support with a second socket compartment to receive the other portion of the light-bulb shaped article when the package is in a closed position.

Abstract: A lightweight impact resistant container for protecting aircraft brake assembly during shipment and minimizing the required amount of handling during installation and removal of the brake assembly from the aircraft is disclosed. The device is comprised of a cylindrical tube, a base portion, and a top portion, each of which are divided in half along the axis of the cylindrical tube. The two halves are hinged together to allow the two halves to pivot open and shut. When the container is shut, latches are used to secure the container in a closed position. The container further includes a threaded rod assembly with two conical members threaded on the rod for supporting and holding the brake assembly in a fixed position during shipment and storage. The threaded rod assembly mechanically interfits with the top portion and the base portion of the container.

Abstract: Containers for receiving, holding and transporting a pair of drummer's cymbals from a hi-hat stand; containers for receiving, holding and transporting large diameter circular, sectionally arcuate objects in pairs such as musical cymbals of identical diameter taken from a hi-hat stand; receiving, containing and carrying containers for two paired, opposed cymbals taken from a hi-hat cymbal stand; containers adapted to receive, hold, contain and protect a pair of opposed, equal diameter cymbals actually mounted on a hi-hat cymbal stand, the containers not only holding and carrying the cymbals therewithin, but also transportable and carryable with the hi-hat stand, per se.

Abstract: A novel packaging for several tape-form recording media (5) wound on reel cores (6) or spools provided with internal bores consists of two pallets (1, 2) and optionally hubs (3) which are raised in the axial center (10) and of which the diameter corresponds to the clear internal diameter of the bores of the reel cores (6). The packaging can be sealed by a shrink film (4) which can be pulled thereover. The cuboid pallets (1, 2) which can be joined together have groove-like notches (7) at their edges, the interior of the pallets reproduces the outer shape of the pancakes (5) and the weld seam (8) of the shrink film (4) is formed in one of the notches (7). The pallets (1, 2) also have window-like cutouts (9) on their four narrow sides. Pallets as well as the hub (3) passing through the axial center (10) of the pancakes are preferably composed of Styropore (FIG. 1).

Abstract: An apparatus wherein a housing includes a base and lid, with the base and lid including a mirror image cavity in alignment relative to one another when the base and lid are in a first spaced configuration. The base and lid are hingedly mounted relative to one another to permit positioning of a similar plurality of saw blades therebetween within the base and lid cavity. The base and lid cavity include cooperative members to align the blades in the cavity. Each cavity is provided with dimaetrically opposed relief cavities to permit manual access to the saw blades when mounted within the cavity portions of each base and lid. A modification of the invention includes oil impregnated fabric members positioned and secured to each top surface of the saw blade to minimize corrosion and adherence of adjacent saw blades.

Abstract: A device for protecting a carbon disk stack used in an aircraft brake assembly is disclosed. The glove-like device is constructed of an impact-resistant, flexible material and is installed by sliding the device over the carbon disk assembly. The device may be used to ship a carbon disk stack fixed to a torque tube of the brake assembly or to ship a stack of carbon disks alone.

Abstract: A protective cover which is releasably securable to a component having an aperture formed therethrough, such as an end yoke, is disclosed. The cover includes a generally flat circular end portion having a depending skirt portion formed about the outer periphery thereof. The skirt portion is formed integrally with the end portion and extends axially downwardly therefrom to define a hollow cylindrical protected region. First and second legs are formed integrally with the end portion and extend downwardly within and beyond the skirt portion. As they extend from the end portion, the legs diverge slightly apart from one another in inverted-V fashion. At the lower ends of the legs, respective series of shoulders are formed. The cover is installed by slightly compressing the legs together and inserting them through the aperture at one end of the component.

Abstract: A package for holding a plurality of containing ends having a volatile coating thereon which package is formed by superposing a first and a second elongated strip of a relatively flexible material so that a plurality of container ends may be inserted between the superposed strips and wherein portions of the superposed strips are then sealed together to form sealed compartments having the plurality of container ends confined therein and wherein the first elongated strip comprises a material for permitting passage of the airborne solvents therethrough to permit further processing of the container ends and at least the facing surface of the second elongated strip comprises a thermally reactive sealing material to form the sealed compartments.

Abstract: A biaxially-oriented polymer film having dual-sided appearance, i.e., the color of each side is chromatically different. Also a method for making such films.

Abstract: A drain sanitizing article (9) for reducing microbiological activity in drain runoff areas having a housing (10), the housing having an inner wall (16) defining an inner opening (18) in the housing, an outer wall (12), and a bottom wall (14) defining a central cavity (15) in the housing (10), a tear strip (20) for destructibly removing the housing outer wall and a portion of the bottom wall (14), a handle (30) spanning the inner opening (18) of the housing (10) and joined to the inner wall (16) of said housing (10); and a chemical sanitizing agent (40).

Abstract: A packaging container for a plurality of circular recording media is formed from substantially identical container parts which, after being combined, have a continuous longitudinal tooth system in the circumferential direction and at least one partial transverse tooth system in the radial direction. Toothed edge parts of the container parts engage one another. Stacking means are provided. Recording media to be packaged are any type of recording media in circular form, such as wound films, magnetic tapes or recording disks.

Abstract: The carrying device comprises a folded material, such as cardboard, which surrounds a pair of weights in a frame. The frame comprises an upwardly extending center panel and two side panels. The side panels are disposed parallel to the center panel and are separated from the center panel by a distance which is slightly larger than the thickness of the weights. The side panels are connected to the center panel by bottom panels. A wooden rod is placed through the center holes of the athletic weights, and anchored into the side of the cardboard frame. A handle located in the frame allows the weights to be easily carried.

Abstract: Package for pancakes, consisting of plate-like plastic pallets (1) which protect the outer pancakes and, if necessary, raised rubs (3) in the center of the pallets, the diameter of which corresponds to the inside diameter of the bores of the winding cores and wherein the package can be sealed by means of a shrink film (4) coated thereon. The inner surfaces (2) of the plastic pallets (1) taper off in a sloping manner towards the outside at least in the region of the tape reel (5) of the pancakes, so that the inner surfaces (2) rest against the pancake in a uniform manner over the entire region of the tape reel (5) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for packaging a plurality of disk-shaped products, such as a roll of magnetic tape, wherein a magnetic tape is rolled up around a hub. In the apparatus, the disk-shaped products are piled up so that the hubs are aligned along the axial direction. The apparatus has a center core passing through the hubs, at least one pare of pressing plates being positioned at both ends of the piled disk-shaped products so that disk-shaped products are pressed in the axial direction between the pressing plates, and heat shrinkable sheet for fixing a positional relation between the center core and the pressing plates.

Abstract: A stackable and nestable tray for shipping of weather stripping. The tray has a central weight bearing hub which also acts as a stop to pervent weather stripping which is coiled about the hub from shifting in a manner which would damage the weather strip. The tray has a generally rounded body portion which has a bottom wall and an upstanding side wall. A series of radially inwardly extending step-like protrusion are formed on the side wall with corresponding inwardly extending indentations on the opposite side of the side wall. The hub portion is hollow and includes a series of hollow radially outwardly extending protrusions with surfaces extending between the corresponding outwardly extending indentations in the hollow underside. The trays will stack one upon another in a first position and will nest into each other for return shipping when rotated to a second position.

Abstract: For storing frame-like objects during shipment, which comprises a box having a normally vertical wall portion and a normally horizontal base together defining an inner space, the box having an opening into the inner space; upper and lower pairs of elongated brackets projecting from the vertical wall portion into the inner space for supporting a plurality of frame-like objects suspended therefrom, the pairs of brackets each having proximal ends at the vetical wall portion and distal free ends, the pair of lower brackets being lower with respect to the base than and spaced inwardly of the pair of upper brackets, the upper and lower pairs of brackets being accessible through the opening, whereby the frame-like objects can be loaded onto and unloaded from the upper and lower brackets via the opening; and a movable cover for closing the opening of the box.

Abstract: A nested stack of pre-formed decorative bows are compactly packed and dispensed therefrom. Each bow has a plurality of curled free ribbon ends emanating from a central region. The curled ends of the bows engage and envelop one another, thereby minimizing "dead" space.

Abstract: In a cassette for dispensing flexible tubing, the tubing is packed in a tightly layered mass between a tubular core and the vertical wall of a casing. Subsequently a cap is mounted in an expanded portion of the casing. The cap has a vertical part fitting the portion and a flange partially overlapping the pack. The cap is secured against rising by punching tongues out of the portion that engage in a groove in the part. The inner surface of part aligns with surface of casing. The junction beneath expanded portion prevents cap from descending as the tubing is dispensed from the top of the pack, over the core edge and through core.

Abstract: A shipping, storing and dispensing container for a length of longitudinally- and radially-compressible product such as insulated or uninsulated duct for air conditioning systems. The container is adapted to have a lateral dispensing opening formed therein for allowing a desired length of compressed flexible duct or other similar product contained therein to be controllably drawn from the container, and to prevent such product from springing out of the container as a result of its internal compressive forces. The lateral dispensing opening is formed in one side and near one end of the container by punching out a flap defined by partially die-cut lines along one side and near one end of the container. The flap may be frictionally engaged with the edges of the container forming the lateral dispensing opening to close the lateral dispensing opening and re-seal the container.

Abstract: A blade bag for carrying blades used with a circular saw in a pocket formed between its front wall member and its rear wall member. The rear wall member has a lower major portion formed with a fold line at its top edge. A rear wall flap member extends upwardly from this fold line. The front wall member also has a lower major portion that extends upwardly to its fold line. A front wall member extends upwardly from this fold line. The front and rear wall members are fastened to each other around a perimeter from the opposite ends of the fold line of the front wall member down around its bottom edge. When the blade bag is in its closed state, the front wall flap member is folded upwardly and it hides from view and access the saw blades removably positioned within the pocket of the blade bag. Also in this closed state, the rear wall flap member is folded downwardly about its fold line so that it covers the front surface of the front wall flap member.

Abstract: Apparatus for separately holding a multiplicity of each of several different sized elastic bands such as rubber bands. The apparatus includes a body having a multiplicity of storage regions, each of which has a storage slot. Further, the circumferences of at least two of the storage slots in different storage regions are different from one another. More specifically, a storage region is formed by disposing a first storage slot having a first circumference between two other restraining or confining ridges or regions, each of which ridges or regions has a larger circumference than the first region. Different sized elastic bands are then wrapped about the body in the different storage regions. The circumference about the body in a storage slot of a particular storage region which is appropriately sized to hold a particular elastic band is at least as large as the circumference of the inside surface of the elastic band.

Abstract: A container specifically designed for vacumm holding and shipping a silicon wafer, is provided with two circular portions having circumferentially, on bulged top and lower faces outer rasied edges and, within the top face of the circular portion forming the bottom portion of the assembled container, an inner edge.

Abstract: A display card assembly includes first and second substantially flat cards having first and second apertures therein, respectively, and an elongated substantially flat retaining member which is dimensioned for receiving a ring-like ornamental article thereon. The cards are secured together in overlying relation with the apertures in substantially aligned relation and the retaining member is interposed between the cards so that it passes across the opening defined by the apertures. A ring-like ornamental article received on the portion of the retaining member passing across the opening defined by the apertures is retained on the retaining member so that it can be effectively displayed on the display card assembly.

Abstract: A protective housing is provide for transporting circular saw blades, comprising an integral structure formed of a face plate, a lateral flange at each of two opposite edges disposed perpendicularly to the face plate, and a foot flange extending perpendicularly from each lateral flange adapted to engage a supporting surface. A carriage bolt extends through and aperture in the center of the face plate. A plurality of circular saw blades may be placed in the structure inside the foot flanges, and the carriage bolt inserted through the aperture in the face plate and through the apertures in the centers of the saw blades. A nut, such as a wing nut, is then screwed onto the carriage bolt and tightened down against the saw blades. The housing provides a convenient means for transporting the blades to and from a job, providing protection for the blades themselves, the workman, and the environment.